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(0)Martha A Sandweiss
Author
Publisher
A. Carter Museum
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1986. 336 pp., 9x12ư". Now out-of-print, this is a stunning tribute to the life of Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), one of the preeminent chroniclers of life in the American Southwest. Designed by Eleanor Caponigro with tri-tone reproductions, this retrospective monograph is the first major study of Gilpin's life and work. When published, Martha A. Sandweiss was the curator of the Amon Carter Museum in...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Traces the secret double life of a nineteenth-century scientist and surveyor of the post-Civil War American West, revealing how he was able to cross color lines and live a second life with an African-American wife and five multi-racial children.
